Automatic cut-out attachment for cisterns.



L. C. OVERMILLER.

AUTOMATIC CUT-OUT ATTACHMENT FOE. GISTBRNS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. $4, 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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AUTOMATIC CUT-OUT ATTACHMENT FOR CISTERNS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

Application filed September 24, 1914. Serial No. 863,308.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS C. OVERMILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Athol, in the county of Smith and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Cut-Out Attachments for Cisterns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in automatic cut out attachments for cisterns.

The primary object of this invention is to provide an attachment in connection with a rain-barrel and the rain water pipes of a building whereby the water from the roof of the building may be automatically made to flow into a cistern after having first raised to a desired height within the barrel.

A further object is to provide a three-way casing having a shiftable damper therein and readily attachable to desirable connecting pipes and in connection therewith a float-guiding casing removably attached to the edge of a rain barrel and positioned therein.

A still further object is to provide a device that is easy and inexpensive to manufacture, and whereby the first quantity of water flowing from the roof of a building and containing the dirt from the roof is led into a rain barrel and after which the direction of flow is automatically changed for flowing the clean water into the cistern, and the device automatically locked in this position.

With these general objects in View and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, illustratedin the accompanying drawings and set forth in the ap ended claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this a plication and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device partially broken away, and showing a portion of the conductor pipe and the cistern inlet pipe. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the cut-out or damper casing enlarged and portions of the connecting pipe and partiallv illustrated in central longitudinal section, and, Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the elements shown in Fig. 2.

Referring more in detail to the drawings 11? will be understood that the conductor pipe 10 is of the form ordinarily employed and extends substantially vertical at the side of a building and leads downwardly from the gutter or eaves-trough upon the roof which is adapted to receive the precipitations upon the roof. The device now contemplated provides the. casing 11 having three pipes, one of said pipes 12 being adapted for mounting over the end of the conductor pipe, while one of the depending pipes 13 of the casing has a stub pipe or outlet 14 secured thereto and adapted to allow the water in the conducting pipe to flow into the usual rain barrel 15 positioned upon the ground adiacent the side or corner of the building. The third pipe 16 of the casing being also downwardly extending has the cistern inlet pipe 17 connected thereto. A damper 18 is positioned within the casing, being secured to the angular rod 19 rotatably mounted therethrough and having its angularly projecting end 20 secured to an arm 21 pivoted to a vertically arranged rod 22. It will be seen from this construction that when the damper 18 is positioned as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the water from the conductor pipe will be turned into the pipe 1 1 leading to the rain barrel, but that when the damper is positioned as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the water will be conducted to the cistern inlet pipe 17.

A tubular casing 23 is removaloly positioned within the barrel 15 by means of hooks 21 attached to the top of the said casing 23 and readily hooked over the top edge of the barrel, the said casing 23 extending substantially to the middle of the barrel. The hook 27 attached to the pipe 12 engages the angular end 20 upon its upward movement and automatically locks the damper for conducting the water into the cistern. A disk-shaped float 25 formed of buoyant material such as cork or wood, or formed of a hollow galvanized iron casing as herein shown, is provided with spaced lugs 26 between which the lower free end of the rod 22 is hinged, while the said float is vertically slidable within the casing 23.

There is thus provided an automatic cutout actuator serviceable as an attachment for a rain-barrel in connection with any desired form of damper cut-out while it is also intended to provide the cut-out casing as a part of the attachment and to be sold therewith When desired so that the complete automatically-operated cut-out may constitute a complete article of manufacture.

lVith the device arranged as shown in the drawings, the Water from the roof Will be directed into the rain-barrel and upon rising herein also rises in the tubular casing 23 and elevates the float 25, whereupon the rod 22 is raised and by means of the arm 21 turns the damper 18 to the dotted line position shoWn in Fig. 2 and the course of the Water is then diverted from the rain barrel to the cistern, While the hook 27 then engages the end 20 and locks the damper in this position.

While the forms of the invention herein shown and described are the preferred embodiments thereof, it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changes ma be made Without. departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the claim.

What is claimed as new is: An attachment of the class described, comprising in combination W1th a removable cut-out valve, a tubular casing open at both ends thereof and adapted for positioning Within a receptacle, hooks at the upper end of said casing adapted for seating over the edge of such receptacle, a vertically movable float positioned Within said casing, spaced lugs upon the top of said float, a shifting rod having one end thereof operatively connected to said valve, and having its other end pivoted between the said lugs, and means for automatically locking said float in its uppermost position With the valve in one shifted position.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

LEWIS C. OVERMILLER.

Vitnesses J. D. FLAXBOARD, J. H. HILL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

